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Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex, Literature, and Censorship written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1959 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Printed in the U.S.A. by the Colonial Press Inc."--t.p. verso.
Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745627649
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex, Literature and Censorship written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Polity. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them. He begins with a polemical and witty attack on the spurious radicalism of some fashionable academic theories about desire and sexual dissidence. Dollimore then examines the ways in which the media, literary critics and the state, as well as these literary theorists, all deny or repress the disturbing and dangerous knowledge conveyed by literature. His own account of the volatile connections between aesthetics, desire, politics and censorship unfolds through topics such as homosexuality, bisexuality, sexual disgust, and the disturbing relations between art and inhumanity, and through brilliant insights into a wide range of authors including Euripides, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Yeats. Most persistently, this book is about how the experience of desire in life and art compromises our most cherished ethical beliefs. If this helps make art irresistible and of indispensable value, it follows too that there are reasonable grounds for wanting to censor it. This compelling and accessibly written book will be essential reading for students and scholars of literary, gender and cultural studies, and will have a major impact on debates about art, sexuality, censorship and the role of the intellectual.
Author : John E. Semonche
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742572757
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Censoring Sex written by John E. Semonche and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up to the present. He covers the various forms of American media—books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. The tale is varied and interesting, replete with a stock of colorful characters such as Anthony Comstock, Mae West, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, Opie and Anthony, Judy Blume, Jerry Falwell, Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the Guerilla Girls. Covering the history of censorship of sexual ideas and images is one way of telling the story of modern America, and Semonche tells that tale with insight and flair. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. Censorship, whether undertaken to ward off government regulation, to help preserve the social order, or to protect the weak and vulnerable, proceeds on the assumption that the censor knows best and that limiting the choices of media consumers is justified. At various times all of the following groups were perceived as needing protection from sexually explicit materials: children, women, the lower classes, and foreigners. As social and political conditions changed, however, the simple fact that someone was a woman or a day laborer did not support stereotyping that person as weak or impressionable. What would remain as the only acceptable rationale for censorship of sexual materials was the protection of children and unconsenting adults. For each mode of media, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place in America. Censoring Sex also traces the story of how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship has diminished over the course of the last two centuries. Yet, Semonche argues, the censorship of sexual materials that continues in the United States poses a challenge to the free speech that is part of the foundation upon which the nation is built. Indeed, in an era in which sexual images are pervasive and the need for reliable information about sex and sexuality is growing, he questions the remaining rationales for censorship and the justification for placing obscenity outside the protection of the U. S. Constitution.
Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex, Literature, and Censorship written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex, Literature and Censorship written by D. H. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Sex, Literature and Censorship written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dawn B. Sova
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816071497
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds written by Dawn B. Sova and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Revised Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 100 works deemed sexually obscene. The entries new to this edition include America by Jon Stewart, Sex by Madonna, The Buffalo Tree by Adam Rapp, and many more. Also included are updates to entries such as Forever by Judy Blume, and more
Author : D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Publisher : New York : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sex Literature and Censorship : Essays written by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence and published by New York : Viking. This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily J. M. Knox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442231688
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Book Banning in 21st-Century America written by Emily J. M. Knox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books—also known as challenges—occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Previous research on censorship tends to focus on legal frameworks centered on Supreme Court cases, historical case studies, and bibliographies of texts that are targeted for removal or relocation and is often concerned with how censorship occurs. The current project, on the other hand, is focused on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books, are intimately tied to the how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as a social practice that has changed over time and encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies. In order to understand why people challenge books, it presents a model of how the practice of reading is understood by challengers including “what it means” to read a text, and especially how one constructs the idea of “appropriate” reading materials. The book is based on three different kinds sources. The first consists of documents including requests for reconsideration and letters, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies, produced in the course of challenge cases. Recordings of book challenge public hearings constitute the second source of data. Finally, the third source of data is interviews with challengers themselves. The book offers a model of the reading practices of challengers. It demonstrates that challengers are particularly influenced by what might be called a literal “common sense” orientation to text wherein there is little room for polysemic interpretation (multiple meanings for text). That is, the meaning of texts is always clear and there is only one avenue for interpretation. This common sense interpretive strategy is coupled with what Cathy Davidson calls “undisciplined imagination” wherein the reader is unable to maintain distance between the events in a text and his or her own response. These reading practices broaden our understanding of why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.
Author : Theodore Schroeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Etiology and Development of Our Censorshop of Sex-literature written by Theodore Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
